Firefox 3.1 Alpha: New Tabs, Smart Location, More

Mozilla has announced the release of >Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1, Shiretoko, for developers and testers. Built on the pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, Shiretoko includes a variety of new features. Called an early developer milestone, the release includes bug fixes, improved Web standards support, Text API for the Canvas Element, support for border images and JavaScript query selectors, and improvements to the tab-switching function and the Smart Location Bar. Shiretoko is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux